Bose 321 Owner's guide - Page 5

Introduction Before you begin Thank you for purchasing the Bose® 3•2•1 home entertainment system, which offers superb sound, elegance, and simplicity in an advanced home audio setup. Using Bose proprietary signal processing technology, the 3•2•1 system provides improved spaciousness from stereo recordings, and bold movie effects from surround-encoded materials. Yet its few parts require little labor to set up, so you can enjoy your new system's performance right away. Your system includes: • Integrated AM/FM tuner and DVD/CD player in a small console • Small, easy-to-place shelf speakers and an attractive floor-standing Acoustimass® module • Easy-to-use infrared remote control • Console input jacks for connecting other source components (such as a VCR, DSS, CD changer, or tape deck) Selecting compatible discs The DVD/CD player built into the 3•2•1 media center can play the following types of discs identified by their corresponding logos: • Video DVDs • Audio CDs • CD-R and CD-R/Ws • MP3 on CD Check for region code compatibility For any DVD player and DVD disc to be compatible, their region code numbers must match. These numbers are allocated according to where the player and disc are sold. Check the region code number on the carton for the 3•2•1 home entertainment system or on the bottom of the media center that comes in the carton. Then be sure to choose only DVD discs that show the same region number on the disc label or front cover. For example, a Region 1 DVD player should display the following mark: How text is used in this owner's guide These instructions refer to buttons on the remote control and on the media center front panel, menu items that appear on your TV screen, and status indicators on the media center display. To help you differentiate them: Button names appear in bold type. If a button has only a symbol, that alone will be used. On-Screen Display messages appear in bold type with a line above and below. MEDIA CENTER DISPLAY items are represented by bold capitalized type. Glossary of terms 2D - The trademarked logo for Dolby Digital, a perceptual coding system for audio, devel- oped by Dolby Laboratories. Dolby Digital is the most common means of encoding audio for DVD-Video. Aspect Ratio - The shape of the rectangular picture in a TV set. It is the width of the picture relative to the height. Our standard TV picture, in terminology used by that industry, is 4 units wide by 3 units high, or 4:3 (read as 4 by 3) in aspect ratio. There are currently two standard TV aspect ratios in the U.S., 4:3 and 16:9. AM256950_02_V.pdf • January 29, 2002 5